With the World Series decided a couple of weeks ago, the baseball world is now prepared to bestow its top individual honors.

Each night this week at 6 p.m. ET, MLB Network will reveal baseball's biggest awards, starting with American and National League Rookies of the Year tonight, Managers of the Year on Tuesday, Cy Young Awards on Wednesday and MVPs on Thursday.

With that in mind, here's a look at each of the finalists for the top on-field awards along with one cool stat that helps make their case. Players are listed alphabetically by last name within each grouping.

Top rookies

Michael Fulmer: AL ROY, Best Rookie
After finding his legs over his first four starts of the season, Fulmer rattled off 10 consecutive starts with two or fewer runs (earned or unearned) allowed to match a Tigers record post-World War II. That streak of 10 starts was also the longest for any rookie in franchise history.

Fulmer's strong start

BAL@DET: Fulmer fans five over seven frames

Michael Fulmer fires seven strong innings, holding the Orioles to two runs on three hits with five strikeouts

Kenta Maeda: NL ROY
The Japanese pitcher led Los Angeles with 32 starts, 175 2/3 innings and 16 victories, becoming just the second rookie since the divisional era began in 1969 to lead a division-winning team in starts, innings pitched and victories over a full season. (The other is Tommy Milone of the 2012 A's. Fernando Valenzuela also led the Dodgers in those three categories in 1981, but that was a split campaign due to a players' strike.)

Maeda fans nine over six innings

LAD@PHI: Maeda fans nine over six solid frames

Kenta Maeda strikes out nine over six innings of two-run ball against the Phillies, allowing three hits and one walk to earn his 12th win

Tyler Naquin: AL ROY, Best Rookie, Best Play (Offense)
Naquin's exhilarating trip around the bases to help the Indians defeat the Blue Jays on Aug. 19 marked only the 11th time in baseball history that a rookie hit a walk-off, inside-the-park home run, and the first since the Twins' Tim Teufel in 1984.

Indians win on inside-the-parker

TOR@CLE: Naquin hits inside-the-park walk-off homer

With the score knotted at 2 in the 9th, Tyler Naquin hits an inside-the-park walk-off home run to right-center field for the Indians' win

Gary Sanchez: AL ROY, Best Rookie
No player in baseball history has had as powerful an impact as Sanchez while arriving so late in the Major League calendar. The catcher's 20 home runs were the most ever hit in a single season by a player who hadn't hit any before Aug. 1 of that year.

Sanchez's two-run homer

BOS@NYY: Sanchez drills his 20th home run of the year

Gary Sanchez launches a two-run homer, tying Wally Berger of the Boston Braves in 1930 for the fastest to 20 home runs

Corey Seager: NL ROY, NL MVP, Best Rookie
Seager's 7.5 wins above replacement (WAR), according to FanGraphs, was the highest single-season total posted by any NL shortstop in the live-ball era (1920-present) before his 23rd birthday. Only Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby's 9.5 WAR for the 1917 Cardinals (when he was just 21) ranks higher than Seager among NL shortstops in baseball's modern history.

Statcast: Seager's game-tying HR

COL@LAD: Seager smacks game-tying HR at 112.2 mph

Statcast of the Day: Statcast measures Corey Seager's game-tying home run in the 9th against the Rockies

Trea Turner: NL ROY, Best Rookie
Only three players in history (Bobby Bonds, Davey Lopes and Rickey Henderson) had ever recorded at least 10 home runs and 30 steals in fewer than 100 games over the course of a season like Turner did in 2016 -- and Turner is the first rookie in this exclusive club.

Turner joins 10-HR, 30-SB club

Turner in elite company with 30 steals, 10 home runs

Trea Turner joins Rickey Henderson, Bobby Bonds and Davey Lopes as the only players to hit 10 homers and steal 30 bases in under 100 games

Top pitchers

Kyle Hendricks: NL Cy Young, Best Pitcher
In an era in which seemingly every pitcher throws at least 95 mph and pitchers are tallying more strikeouts than ever before, Hendricks stands apart. In 2016, Hendricks joined Kevin Brown (1996) as the only two starting pitchers in the Wild Card Era (1995-present) to record an ERA under 2.50 and a WHIP under 1.00 while recording fewer than 175 strikeouts over the course of a season.

Hendricks' scoreless start

CHC@PIT: Hendricks goes six scoreless, earns 16th win

Kyle Hendricks strikes out five and allows seven hits over six scoreless innings to earn his 16th win

Corey Kluber: AL Cy Young, Best Pitcher, Best Major Leaguer (Postseason)
Kluber performed best against the Indians' biggest rivals in 2016, posting a sterling 2.37 ERA against fellow AL Central teams. That ranked as the second-lowest intra-divisional ERA of any AL starting pitcher, trailing only Masahiro Tanaka's 2.27 ERA against AL East clubs.

Kluber's 10th strikeout

CLE@MIN: Kluber gets his 10th strikeout of the game

Corey Kluber strikes Logan Schafer out in the bottom of the 7th for his 10th strikeout of the game

Jon Lester: NL Cy Young, Best Pitcher, Best Major Leaguer (Postseason)
The southpaw limited opposing batters to a .309 OPS in high-leverage situations (or at-bats that present the most dramatic swings in win probability, as defined by Baseball-Reference.com) in 2016, which is the lowest single-season opponent OPS in such situations for a starting pitcher since Oakland's Steve McCatty (.305) in 1981.

Lester escapes the threat

CHC@SD: Lester gets out of a jam with a big strikeout

Jon Lester gets Wil Myers looking for a strikeout that ends the 6th, leaving runners at the corners for the Padres

Rick Porcello: AL Cy Young
Porcello led all Major League starters with a 5.91 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 2016, which qualifies as the fourth-best single-season mark by a 20-game winner in Red Sox franchise history. Only Hall of Famers Pedro Martinez (twice) and Cy Young posted better rates during 20-win campaigns for Boston.

Porcello's 22nd victory

BOS@TB: Porcello fans nine to earn win No. 22

Rick Porcello strikes out nine batters over 6 1/3 solid innings of three-run ball to earn his 22nd win of the season

Max Scherzer: NL Cy Young, Best Pitcher, Best Performance
Scherzer became just the fourth pitcher in NL history to lead the league in strikeouts while being its only 20-game winner that year. The others were John Smoltz (1996), Steve Carlton ('82) and Mort Cooper ('29).

Must C: Scherzer earns 20th win

Must C Classic: Scherzer's bat aids in 20th win

Max Scherzer plates four and tosses five frames, becoming the second NL pitcher since 1900 with 20+ wins, 275 Ks and a sub-.200 opponent avg

Justin Verlander: AL Cy Young
He led Major League pitchers with a 6.6 WAR, per Baseball-Reference.com, becoming only the third pitcher in modern baseball history to lead the AL in both pitcher WAR and strikeouts at age 33 or older. The other two were Roger Clemens (1997-98) and Cy Young (1901).

Verlander's seven strong innings

DET@ATL: Verlander throws seven one-run innings

Justin Verlander throws seven one-run innings while striking out eight against the Braves in the last game at Turner Field

MVP and Best Major Leaguers

Jose Altuve: AL MVP, Best Major Leaguer, Best Hitter
This year, Altuve became the first second baseman in history to win his league's batting title while compiling at least 20 home runs, 30 steals and 40 doubles in the same season.

Altuve's 216th hit

HOU@LAA: Altuve singles for 216th hit of the season

Jose Altuve lines a single to right for his 216th hit of the season, finishing the season as the AL batting champion with a .338 average

Mookie Betts: AL MVP, Best Major Leaguer, Best Defensive Player, Best Performance
In 2016, Betts accomplished something that only one other player in the history of the Red Sox franchise has been able to do, joining Jacoby Ellsbury as the only Red Sox players to tally at least 25 home runs, 25 stolen bases and 200 hits in a single season. The kicker? At age 23, Betts was four years younger than Ellsbury when he did it in 2011.

Betts' 200th hit of the season

BOS@BAL: Betts gets 200th hit with single to center

Mookie Betts bloops a single into center, picking up his 200th hit of the season with his second knock of the night

Kris Bryant: NL MVP, Best Major Leaguer, Best Hitter, Best Performance, Best Major Leaguer (Postseason)
His 7.7 WAR in 2016, per Baseball-Reference.com, is the highest single-season total for any position player who played at least five percent of his total games defensively at each of the two infield corners (first and third base) and each of the two outfield corners (left and right field), surpassing Albert Pujols' 6.6 WAR for the Cardinals in 2001.

Bryant's two-run jack

CHC@PIT: Bryant slugs a two-run home run to left

Kris Bryant clubs a two-run home run to left field to extend the Cubs' lead to 7-0 in the top of the 6th

Daniel Murphy: NL MVP, Best Hitter
Murphy flourished in his first season with Washington, finishing with a .347 average, 25 home runs, 104 RBIs and a .596 slugging percentage. Only one other second baseman in the history of baseball -- Hornsby -- has compiled a season with at least a .345 average, 25 homers, 100 RBIs and a .590 or greater slugging percentage.

Murphy's solo homer

COL@WSH: Murphy extends lead in 5th with 25th homer

Daniel Murphy hits his 25th dinger of the season to center to extend the Nationals' lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the 5th inning

Mike Trout: AL MVP, Best Major Leaguer, Best Hitter
Trout and Altuve both have a big hurdle to climb, as no player has won the AL MVP in a season in which his team missed the postseason since Alex Rodriguez did so as a member of the last-place Rangers in 2003. But we've almost never seen a player as valuable as Trout play for an under-.500 club. In fact, in '16 Trout became only the second player in history to record at least 10.6 WAR while playing for a team with a losing record, joining Cal Ripken Jr.'s 11.5 WAR season for the 1991 Orioles.

Matt Kelly is a reporter for MLB.com based in New York. Follow him on Twitter at @mattkellyMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.